WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:08.000 This image being our episode £1,808 entitled David Whitman Reads, a shooting on Padman Roo written by Robert W. Service. 00:08.000 --> 00:18.000 It is posted by David Whitman and in about 8 minutes long. The summary is for his birthday David Whitman Reads, a Robert W. Service pilot, a shooting on Padman Roo. 00:18.000 --> 00:23.000 This episode of HBR is brought to you by an honest host at com. 00:23.000 --> 00:32.000 Get 15% discount on all shared hosting with the offer code HBR15 that's HBR15. 00:32.000 --> 00:58.000 Make sure web hosting that's honest and fair at an honest host.com. 01:02.000 --> 01:21.000 The shooting of Dan McGrew, a Robert W. Service. 01:21.000 --> 01:28.000 A bunch of boys were booping it up in a Malaboot Saloon, the kid that handles and music box was hitting a ragtime tune. 01:28.000 --> 01:36.000 Back at the bar in a solo game, that dangerous Dan McGrew, and watching his luck was his light of love, the lady that's known as Lou. 01:36.000 --> 01:44.000 When out of the night which was 50 below and into the din and glare, there stumbled a minor fresh from the creeks, dog dirty and loaded for bear. 01:44.000 --> 01:58.000 He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a mouse. He tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house. 01:58.000 --> 02:13.000 But we drank his health and the last drink was dangerous Dan McGrew. There's men that somehow grip your eyes and hold them hard like a spell and such was he and he looked to me like a man who lived in hell. 02:13.000 --> 02:31.000 Almost hair and a dreary stare of a dog whose day is done as he watered a green stuff in his glass and the drops fell one by one. 02:31.000 --> 02:44.000 His eyes went rubbering around the room and he seemed in kind of a days till at last that old piano fell in the wave as wandering gaze. The ragtime kid was having a drink and there was no one else on the stool. 02:44.000 --> 02:49.000 So the stranger's dumbles across the room and flops down there like a fool. 02:49.000 --> 02:59.000 In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt he sat and I saw him sway and he clutched the keys with his talent hands, my god, but that man could play. 02:59.000 --> 03:08.000 Were you ever out in the great alone when the moon was off a clear and the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear. 03:08.000 --> 03:18.000 With only the hell of the timber wolf as you camp there in the cold a half dead thing in a stark dead world clean mad for the muck called gold. 03:18.000 --> 03:27.000 While high overhead green yellow and red the northern light swept in bars then you've a hunch with a music man hunger and might in the stars. 03:27.000 --> 03:41.000 And hunger not are the belly kind that's vanished with bacon and beans but the nine hunger of lonely men for a home and for all that it means for a fire side far from the cares that are for walls in a roof above. 03:41.000 --> 03:46.000 But oh so cram full of cozy joy and crowned with a woman's love. 03:46.000 --> 03:56.000 The woman's dear than all the world and true is heaven is true. God how costly she looks to her rouge the lady that's known as Lou. 03:56.000 --> 04:01.000 Then on a sudden the music changed so soft you could scarce hear. 04:01.000 --> 04:06.000 But you felt that your life had been looted clean of all the ones held dear. 04:06.000 --> 04:18.000 But someone had stolen the woman you loved and her love was a devil's lie that your guts are gone and the best for you was to crawl away and die. 04:18.000 --> 04:33.000 I guess I'll make it spread misery said dangerous Dan McGrew. The music almost dies away then it burst like a pent up flood and it seemed to say repay repay and my eyes were blind with blood. 04:33.000 --> 04:40.000 The thought came back of an ancient wrong and it's done like a frozen lash and the lester woke to kill to kill. 04:40.000 --> 04:50.000 Then the music stopped with a crash and the stranger turned in his eyes they burned in a most peculiar way in a buck skin shirt that was glazed with dirt. 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 He sat and I saw him sway. 04:52.000 --> 04:57.000 Then his lips went in kind of a grin and he spoke and his voice was calm. 04:57.000 --> 05:05.000 And boy said he you don't know me and none of you cared to him but I want to state and my words are straight and I bet my poke their true. 05:05.000 --> 05:16.000 One of you is the hound of hell. Now one is Dan McGrew and I duck my head and the lights went out and two guns blaze in the dark and a woman screamed and the lights went up two men lay stiff and start. 05:16.000 --> 05:25.000 Bitched on his head and pump full of lead was dangerous Dan McGrew or the man from the creeks lay clutching to the breast of the lady that's known as Lou. 05:25.000 --> 05:29.000 These are the simple facts of the case and I guess I ought to know. 05:29.000 --> 05:38.000 They say that the stranger was crazed with hooch and I'm not denying it so. I'm not as wise as the lawyer guy is but strictly between us two. 05:38.000 --> 05:43.000 The woman that kissed him and pinched his poke was a lady that's known as Lou. 05:43.000 --> 06:00.000 You've been listening to Hecker Public Radio at HeckerPublicRadio.org. 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